17. The priests were listed in the official records by clans, and the Levites twenty years old and older were listed by their duties.
18. The official records also included their wives and children, because they had also been faithful in keeping themselves clean and acceptable to serve the Lord.
19. Hezekiah also appointed other men to take food and supplies to the priests and Levites whose homes were in the pasture land around the towns of Judah. But the priests had to be descendants of Aaron, and the Levites had to be listed in the official records.
20-21. Everything Hezekiah did while he was king of Judah, including what he did for the temple in Jerusalem, was right and good. He was a successful king, because he obeyed the Lord God with all his heart.